technologyreseller.co.uk 15 NEWS : RESELLRES UK firms among winning GoTo partners Boxxe and ASM Technologies were among the winners at GoTo’s 2022 Partner Awards, winning the awards for Top Connect Partner and Top EMEA Partner respectively. The GoTo Partner Awards recognise partners’ success in selling GoTo’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) products and remote support tools, including GoTo Resolve, Rescue, GoTo Connect and GoTo Contact Center. The GoTo Partner Network recently introduced GoTo Resolve for MSPs, a new Partner Concierge Programme, and a revitalised programme for Full Service Provider (FSP) partners. www.goto.com/ partners Microsoft partners share expertise to boost cyber protection BOM IT Solutions and Ontinue are working together to deliver improved cyber protection to customers, drawing on the former’s expertise in business IT infrastructure and solutions and the latter’s expertise in cybersecurity services. Known as Tiberium before its recent acquisition by Open Systems, Ontinue is a managed service provider and member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association. Its Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) service, Ontinue Ion, provides Microsoft customers with real-time automated security operations to prevent and react to cyber incidents. For easier collaboration on problems, Ontinue Ion is embedded directly into Microsoft Teams. Ontinue’s Chief Innovation Officer, Drew Perry, said: “The partnership with BOM IT Solutions is great news for both parties. BOM has been providing IT solutions to businesses for over 60 years, its team has an unrivalled knowledge of businesses’ IT infrastructures. Combined with our knowledge of cybersecurity managed services and our expertise in automation and collaboration, we’re looking forward to helping stop more cyber threat actors at speed and scale.” Andy Carter, Managing Director, BOM IT Solutions, added: “As a people-first technology provider we are constantly researching the market, looking for partnerships and collaborations that will enhance our service offering to our customers. Providing real value by addressing real issues. Our cybersecurity division has been in high demand with our existing customers since we launched it last year, with 75% adding cybersecurity services to their existing IT solution packages. “Working with Ontinue will enable us to further enhance our cybersecurity services to clients and provide them with the reassurance that their businesses are being monitored for potential threats around the clock.” McLaren Construction win for CSA Cyber Security Associates (CSA), the Gloucester-based cyber consultancy and managed services provider, has been appointed to provide cyber security services to McLaren Construction, the construction and property development company behind projects like Leicester City Football Club Training Ground, McArthurGlen Designer Outlet and Wembley Park. Services provided by CSA will include managed cyber security services from its UK security operations centre (SOC) and the management and monitoring of Microsoft Sentinel, a single cloud-native enterprise solution for attack detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting and threat response. David Woodfine, Co-Founder and Managing Director of CSA, said: “Our connected cyber management service covers all areas of detection and response and our experience of working with the construction industry means we are fully able to provide robust, military-grade cyber protection. Our dedicated and experienced SOC team all have enhanced government security clearance and work around the clock to monitor for activity, identify and isolate threats and provide instant, live support.” Csa.limited David Woodfine Drew Perry. Ontinue Andy Carter, BOM IT Solutions inTEC acquisition spree reaches Cambridge Manchester-based inTEC Group has acquired IT managed services provider FROG IT Services Ltd – its 13th acquisition since 2016 – as part of its on-going acquisition strategy. Founded in 1993, FROG IT Services is an experienced team of 10 people based in Cambridge offering managed IT support and IT consultancy services to businesses across the UK. Its acquisition expands inTEC’s office footprint to eight sites in Manchester, Altrincham, Newcastle, Cumbria, Guildford, Sussex, Dublin and now Cambridge. Microsoft Gold Partner inTEC specialises in the design, implementation and support of a wide range of cloud services and business applications including IT managed services, infrastructure support, hosted collaboration and communication solutions. Richard Fella, Managing Director of FROG IT Services, said: “We are delighted to become a part of the inTEC GROUP family. It will mean additional services will be available to our customers which were not part of our internal offering previously. Our staff will have access to further areas of expertise and can use their own high skill levels to enhance the inTEC Group in those areas where we have great depth of knowledge.” Weareintec.co.uk CAE Labs wins first UK FFIA award CAE Labs, the in-house software development practice of IT infrastructure solutions provider CAE Technology Services Ltd, has won a Cisco UK Fast Future Innovation Award (FFIA) for its WiserWatts energy cost reduction and decarbonisation solution. Originating in Canada in 2021 and launched for the first time in the UK in 2023, the FFIAs recognise innovation that can help solve the issues and challenges facing businesses today. WiserWatts helps businesses reduce energy costs and decarbonise their Cisco IP networks by intelligently measuring and optimising power across entire network infrastructures to ensure organisations only consume the number of kWh they need. The automated software solution was found to have the potential to reduce nearly two-thirds of power waste at a medium-sized trial business, which worked with CAE during the development process, and enabled one UK council to reduce its cost/carbon waste by 52% in less than four minutes. CAE aims to promote solutions developed by CAE Labs to CAE’s general availability portfolio of products and services. https://www.thisiscae.com/
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